Town News for Danbury CT

WATERBURY More than 100 people swarmed 671 Meriden Road Saturday as the Cielito Lindo Bakery opened, serving all authentic Latin desserts to the community for the first time. Owner and Mexican native Armando Vargas said after living in the…

GOSHEN Students in the Acts of Kindness Club at Litchfield High School brought joy to a kindergarten student and his classmates at Goshen Center School, not to mention the student’s parents, grandfather and uncle. Club members in superhero costumes made…

DANBURY (AP) — City officials say they have arrested a woman and found five children unharmed after she allegedly kidnapped them in Massachusetts and threatened to harm them and herself. Police in Pittsfield, Mass. notified regional law enforcement Tuesday to…

DANBURY (AP) — A city in Connecticut is fighting efforts to allow a police officer who was fired for berating and threatening an immigrant return to the force. Danbury officials are appealing an arbitration panel’s finding that former Officer Christopher…

HARTFORD – Gov. Dannel P. Malloy hit the right notes to friendly Democratic ears Wednesday, while the two-term Democrat’s last opening day speech to the General Assembly fell on tone deaf Republican earslisteners. The outgoing Malloy choose fairness as the…

TORRINGTON – A Watertown man accused of invading and ransacking an elderly woman’s home with an accomplice last summer in the New Preston section of Washington, Conn., appeared Tuesday in Torrington Superior Court on $250,000 bond. Michael Ferratto, 29, of…

TORRINGTON – More than a year spent working to win a $450,000 grant to help solve a persistent problem in Torrington failed to attract a top prize this week, but the city still may benefit from the attempt. Torrington on…

NAUGATUCK – Paul Stewart Kingman Jr., 58, died Jan. 26, 2018, at his home. Paul was born in Danbury, the son of Jeanette (Gil) Kingman, and had lived in Naugatuck for the past 12 years. Paul was a U.S. Navy…

THOMASTON – Gloria Hayde Kane, 94, of Thomaston, widow of Richard K. Kane, died Monday, Feb. 5, 2018, at Charlotte Hungerford Hospital. “Glo,” as she was known by her family and friends, was born on March 4, 1923 in Lakeville,…

WATERBURY – Waterbury has been awarded a $450,000 jobs grant, which will be used in a $1 million, three-year, effort to improve employment statistics in a depressed South End neighborhood. The city is among five Connecticut communities that will each…

Americans are more stressed than ever, and it seems to have little to do with how much time we have. A Gallup survey last year found that about eight in 10 Americans encounter stress in their daily lives. The American…

REDDING (AP) — The town has agreed to pay at least $30,000 in settlements to the families of two people killed when a train struck their car at a railroad crossing five years ago. The News-Times of Danbury reports that…

DANBURY (AP) — A businessman charged in a sex trafficking ring has rejected a plea deal that would have allowed him to avoid prison time. Bruce Bemer was arrested last year and charged with patronizing a trafficked person in connection…

BETHLEHEM – James J. Rudzavice, 46, passed away peacefully on Thursday, Jan. 25, 2018, at his home surrounded by family after a two and a half year battle with cancer. He was born June 4, 1971, to the late John…

DANBURY – Patricia Ruhl, 85, formerly of Ridgefield, died peacefully from cancer on Jan. 30, 2018, at Regional Hospice Center in Danbury. She was the loving wife of Mr. Edward Ruhl. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated Saturday…

SUPERIOR COURT Court dispositions are released monthly and published daily. Criminal history record information may change daily due to erasures, corrections, pardons and other modifications. These dispositions are accurate as of the time they were obtained. Nov. 16 STANLEY ALESINSKI,…

SUPERIOR COURT Court dispositions are released monthly and published daily. Criminal history record information may change daily due to erasures, corrections, pardons and other modifications. These dispositions are accurate as of the time they were obtained. Nov. 15 SANDY M….

TORRINGTON – Already outlawed in Massachusetts, bump stocks could soon be banned in Connecticut through legislation pledged by Gov. Dannel P. Malloy. Malloy said he will propose legislation to ban the sale of mechanisms that enhance firearms’ rate of fire,…

WATERBURY – Traffic on Interstate 84 will come to a halt at Exit 23 westbound at 11 tonight, Wednesday and Thursday, with the highway reopening at 5 a.m. each day. The overnight closures will allow workers to install structural steel…

WATERBURY – Traffic on Interstate 84 will come to a halt at Exit 23 westbound at 11 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, with the highway reopening at 5 a.m. each day. The overnight closures will allow workers to install structural steel…

HARTFORD – The debate on highway tolling restarted Monday as a group of House Democrats announced plans to introduce legislation to establish electronic tolls. The planned legislation will direct the state Department of Transportation to prepare a statewide plan to…

WATERBURY – Connecticut Children’s pediatric hospitalists and physician assistants are now providing inpatient care for children at Danbury Hospital as part of a new pediatric alliance to bring new services to Northwestern Connecticut. Western Connecticut Health Network and Connecticut Children’s…

Theresa Predzimirski and Harry Predzimirski of Seymour and New Britain announce the engagement of their daughter, Theresa Predzimirski, to Paul Hilario, son of the late Arthur and Silbina Hilario Jr., formerly of Newtown. An August wedding is planned. Miss Predzimirski…

BETHLEHEM – James J. Rudzavice, 46, passed away peacefully on Thursday, Jan. 25, 2018, at his home surrounded by family after a two-and-a-half year battle with cancer. He was born on June 4, 1971, to the late John L. Rudzavice…

NEW MILFORD After five years of collecting and selling consignments from an overflowing old house on Route 7, Litchfield County Pickers is going big. On Thursday a second location, called Litchfield County Pickers South, will open five miles down the…

Washington, Conn. Construction begins in the fall on “revolutionary” new school Three years after residents of the three Region 12 towns voted for it in a referendum, construction of a “revolutionary” AgSTEM academy will begin this fall at Shepaug Valley…

Pierogis made on-site are for sale during the Lenten season at Seymour Congregational Church, 45 Broad St. Pierogis will be available Fridays from 9 to 11 a.m. and 5 to 7 p.m., and Sundays from 11 a.m. to noon, until...

Exhibits, activities, stage shows, face art, balloon twisting and more. Tickets available on the day of the event at the museum or at the Warner Theater. Advance sales tickets at the museum or kidsplaymuseum.org.

The sale will include church-made pierogi’s with cheese, sweet potato with cheese, and kraut with onion. The cost is $6 per dozen. Also Friday’s from 9 to 11 a.m. and 5 to 7 p.m., until Good Friday, March 30. Call to...